Australian Author, Journalist, Speaker

Posts tagged: retirement housing

We are seven women of a certain age, who are lunching together at Kate’s place to celebrate my long-time friend Sheryl’s birthday. Sheryl is a baby boomer creeping further into her early 60s and we range in age from her sister, Diane, the youngest at 58 years of age to Margaret, who is 70 years […]

What a process it has been to reach today – the day I accept a quotation from project builder, Stellar Homes to build our retirement home – at an affordable price. One could think I was something of a masochist to not only build a fourth home in my lifetime, but also to demolish a […]

Was it John Lennon who once wrote “life is what happens when you are busy making other plans’’. We have lived this songline for the last few months as our carefully laid plans to uproot our lives, move house, demolish and begin to rebuild, have gone astray through unforeseen circumstances. I am sitting here reflecting […]